KAUAN - "Maanpako"

KAUAN: Russian post-metal visionaries reveal "Maanpako" from upcoming new album "Ice Fleet"

Russian post-metal visionaries Kauan have revealed new song "Maanpako" from their upcoming album Ice Fleet (out April 9th on Artoffact Records).

Stream the song, here:
https://www.metalsucks.net/2021/03/04/exclusive-track-premiere-kauans-maanpako/

"Maanpako" begins in a state of gentle nostalgia, erupts into a post-rock storm punctuated by blackened screams, then settles back into the calm where it began. The song, like all of Kauan's work, paints vivid pictures that range from the melancholy to the rapturous. As a recent Stereogum review puts it, “Serene guitars give way to crashing devastation and back again... Kauan seems to exist just out of reach on the edge of a dream, where equal parts hope, wonder, and despair are all possible.” MetalSucks describes the new track as a mix of "sparse Max Richter-style aural depression to louder-but-no-less melancholic This Will Destroy You-esque post-metal to Supermodified-era Amon Tobin-ish jazzy electronica to black metal as desolate and frost-bitten as any you will ever hear."

Ice Fleet, Kauan’s eighth full-length, is based on the true story of an unidentified fleet of ships discovered in 1930 in northernmost Russia, completely frozen under the permafrost with crew and passengers' bodies grotesquely preserved.

To accompany the music and enhance the experience, the band has created a 40-page tabletop role-playing game, available now for pre-order along with the LP, CD, and other merch.

Pre-order, here:

https://kauan.bandcamp.com/album/ice-fleet

Founded by Anton Belov in Chelyabinsk, Russia in the mid '00s (and since relocated to Tallinn, Estonia), Kauan have carved a special path through the underground, making album after album of deeply moving art. By all accounts, Ice Fleet is Belov's most ambitious endeavor to date.

More info:
https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2021/02/kauan-ice-fleet.html

Photo by Alina Belova